Re: LyX float numbering - 2

Herbert Voss via lyx-users <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Apr 2026 12:23:27 +0200
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Am 06.04.26 um 11:36 schrieb A-Imam Al-Sammak:
> Dear Herbert
> Thank you very much for your answer. It works fine when applied to all 
> the document. Actually, I should have mentioned that the sample 
> included was part of the end of chapter for my 'Electronics book'. 
> This means that the default Lyx Float numbering is fine (Figure 1.1: 
> title of float) while for the end of chapter I thought the easier 
> scheme need to be without ':' i.e. (Problem 1.1).  I hope I can find a 
> solution for this issue. I am also open to any other suggestion for 
> figure numbering.

In the preamble

\usepackage{caption}



and just before the lst chapter in TeX-code (Ctrl-L)

\captionsetup{labelsep=space}


by the way: everything can be found inside the caption documentation!

Herbert

> On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 9:22 AM Herbert Voss via lyx-users 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
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>     Am 05.04.26 um 18:12 schrieb A-Imam Al-Sammak via lyx-users:
>     >
>     > Attached is a sample Latex file. The float caption has ':', is
>     there a
>     > way of removing it?
>
>     write into Document->Preferences->preamble
>
>     \usepackage[labelsep=space]{caption}
>
>
>     Herbert
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